Michael's Coming Home by Graeme Wright is a new play set some time in the mid-1980s in a west of Ireland market town near the border with Northern Ireland. It is the eve of Dan’s funeral, his remains having been received at the local church prior to the start of the action. He had gone missing eight years earlier and his remains had recently been found by a farmer ploughing land along the border.

Writer and novelist Graeme Wright has been a stalwart of the Bossanyi Studio since its inception as an arts centre and workshop. Indeed it was his chance remark that set the ball rolling. His play ‘Stuck in Lodi’ was performed at the Studio in 2007; his novel ‘Mackie’s Law’ was published last year.